Evaluation of Large Initiatives (ELI)

Background of Eli

TTURCs established

The Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC) initiative is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The overall goal of this initiative is stimulate integrated research that will significantly advance our understanding of tobacco use and nicotine addiction and that will help to combat the toll from tobacco use. The Pilot Evaluation of the TTURCs becomes the first Evaluation of Large Initiatives project, addressing systematically the complexity of large team science with a broader range of outcomes including the social impact of the research.

Several guiding principles were involved in conducting this pilot evaluation of large initiatives: